- OS Linux, Ubuntu (14.04 - 17.04) is completely supported. Other distros may or may not work
- Make sure you have enough swapspace available
- yarn (including Node, it is required for ubuntu 17.04 as well)
- ninja
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Clone Chromium's depot_tools repository:
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
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Add the absolute path of the cloned directory to the end of your PATH variable (You may want to put this in
~/.bashrc
or~/.zshrc
.). Assuming you cloneddepot_tools
to/path/to/depot_tools
:export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/depot_tools
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Create a
browser-android-tabs
parent directory:mkdir browser-android-tabs
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Switch to the directory you just created:
cd browser-android-tabs
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Clone the repository to the
src
subdirectory:git clone https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs.git src
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Switch to the directory you just cloned:
cd src
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Execute the
scripts/getThirdParties.js
script:sh scripts/getThirdParties.js
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Enter information as requested by the script. When asked to create a file for arguments, use this gn file.
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From the
browser-android-tabs/src
directory, execute the following:ninja -C out/Default chrome_public_apk
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Deploy it to your Android device:
build/android/adb_install_apk.py out/Default/apks/Brave.apk
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Create configuration in a new folder:
gn args out/DefaultR
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Set these settings in
args.gn
file. -
From the
browser-android-tabs/src
directory, execute the following:ninja -C out/DefaultR chrome_public_apk
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Sign apk using these steps.
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Create configuration in a new folder:
gn args out/Defaultx86
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Set these settings in
args.gn
file. -
From the
browser-android-tabs/src
directory, execute the following:ninja -C out/Defaultx86 chrome_public_apk
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Sign apk using these steps.
- The browser will not compile in an encrypted file system.
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See https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/debugging-on-android for the general debug process.
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See https://www.chromium.org/developers/android-eclipse-dev to configure the Eclipse IDE.